I was in a room where Lisa Bevere made a statement about the prophetic and it has lingered in my thoughts for a week now, because I had never heard it said this way before. She said, “The prophetic and prophets are to remove every obstacle out of the way of the people’s relationship with God. The role of the prophet is to clear the path for people to hear God.”

Reading prophetic people’s words, comments and predictions does not seem to follow this model of what the prophetic is called to do. The prophetic in our time seems to be a race to who can be the first to predict what will happen next. It is a plethora of opinions about a variety of subjects. It is a perpetual platforming of what words they believe they got right.

There is such a stark contrast from what Lisa Bevere said and what the prophetic in our day and age is doing. 1 Corinthians 14 is an echo of the word of Moses, when he said, oh that I wish all of God’s people could prophesy. What if all of God’s people spoke life, removed obstacles out of people’s way so they could hear God?

This is only possible if we all are eating from the same table. You see there are two tables and both tables are serving the same food in sight, but they are not the same in substance. Proverbs 4:17 reveals one table when it says, “They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.” Wickedness means twisted, perverted, tangled and violence is destructive rhetoric, doom and gloom ending.

The second table is found in Proverbs 3:9-10, “Your barns will be filled with plenty (bread) and your vats will overflow with new wine.” Jesus said He is the bread of life in John 6. This table serves bread and wine as well, but it is the bread of life and the wine of the New Covenant.

Two tables, same food in sight, but not the same in substance. What table are you eating from? What table are you sitting at listening to the narrative being spoken at that table? The table of God is a life speaking, good news narrative table. Remember He is Light and in Him there is no darkness at all. He conquered sin, hell and the grave, and He promised us everlasting life. It’s time to examine the food you are eating, not all bread and wine is the same. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org